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Leading Through the
New Completion AgendaDr. Richard CarpenterChancellor
Jonathan DurfieldAssociate Vice Chancellor, Government Affairs
Amy WelchState Director, Completion by Design
this isa
Game Changer!
Make No Mistake…
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One of four national host sites for the White House
Regional Summit on Community Colleges.
Completion Definitions
Completion rate: The percentage of individuals who complete a certificate or degree (e.g., associate’s and bachelor’s).
Sources: Common College Completion Metrics, National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative, 2011.Adrienne Arnold, “Retention and Persistence in Postsecondary Education”, TGSLC, March 1999.
Attainment rate: The percentage of a population that has obtained a certificate or degree.
Productivity: Awarding more higher education certificates and degrees within the same resources, while maintaining quality.
Persistence: a student’s continuation behavior leading to a desired goal.
Retention rate: the percentage of entering undergraduates who enroll consecutively semester to semester at an institution of higher education.
Why Community Colleges?
Community Colleges play a particularly critical role in serving first-time postsecondary students
• Open-access admissions
• Relatively low tuition
• Nearly 1,200 schools across the country, accessible to most young people in the United States
Today, 12.4 million total students
Community Colleges Today
• 43% of all U.S. undergraduate, first-time freshman are at community colleges.
• Almost half of all Baccalaureate degree recipients first attended a community college.
• 59% of new nurses (and majority of other new healthcare workers) are educated at community colleges.
• Almost 80% of firefighters, law enforcement officers, and EMTs are credentialed at community colleges.
• 95% of U.S. businesses who employ community college graduates recommend community college workforce training programs.
Community Colleges Today
Source: AACC, “Serving Communities, Strengthening the Nation.”
Potential First Time Student Successful
Completion
Source: Rob Johnstone. “An Applied Inquiry Framework for Student Completion”. Presented at Texas Cadre Meeting, Sep. 27, 2011.
Completes SEP
Books in stock at Bookstore
Library Orientation
Effective degree audit
Effective Early Alert program
Faculty Letter of Recommendation /
intro to network
Effective Orientation
Good impression from campus visit
Talk to Univ. Rep /
Employer
IntrusiveCounseling
Meet with college outreach professional
Attends Lecture Series
Join club / participate in student Govt
Connecting with faculty outside
classroom
Clean petition process
User-friendly application process
Leverages Learning Center resources
Powerful learning experience in classroom
Financial Aid Support
Successful Completion
Get accurate perception from HS counselor
Placement Test Prep
PROGRESSENTRY COMPLETION
Potential First Time Student
CONNECTION
Source: Rob Johnstone. “An Applied Inquiry Framework for Student Completion”. Presented at Texas Cadre Meeting, Sep. 27, 2011.
Where are we as a nation?
And why does all of this matter?
Where are we?
Once first in the world, America now ranks 10th in the percentage of young adults with a college degree.
For the first time in our history, the current generation of college-age Americans will be less educated than their parents’ generation…
Source: Complete College America - The Completion Shortfall
15
Percentage of Young-Adult Degree Attainment(Ages 25-34)
Where are we?
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011
• Today, more than 70% of high school students enroll in an advanced education within 2 years
• 1/2 of bachelor’s candidates complete in 6 years
• Less than 1/3 associate’s candidates earn degree in 3 years
• Next decade = 2/3 of jobs will require post-secondary education This requires 3 million more students to graduate
to fill these jobs
Where are we?
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011
Talent Gap • American businesses currently demand 97 million
high-skilled jobs; only 45 million have the necessary skills to do the work.
• Low-skill/low-wage = more than 100 million candidates for 61 million positions.
• Over past 4 decades, all net job growth = positions that require some post-secondary education.
Governmental Solution:Federal
“…by 2020, community colleges will produce an additional 5 million graduates.”
- President Barack Obama
THE AMERICAN GRADUATION INITIATIVE:STRONGER AMERICAN SKILLS THROUGH COMMUNITY
COLLEGES
• Increase Pell Grant program – more than double award• Investment in community colleges - $2B over four years• Increased support for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)• Expanded Income Based Repayment plans
U.S. Department of Labor$500 million
awarded to 32 community college grantees
Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Program (TAACCT) will strengthen college capacity to build and expand innovative programs to provide more workers with the skills and credentials they need to succeed in today’s economy.
Governmental Solution:Federal
NGA College Completion Metrics – account for part-time and transfer students and can be disaggregated to give states’ data toward institutional inadequacies, areas for improvement, and best practices to draw upon.
National Governors Association (NGA)
Collecting and reporting data is a necessary first step for states as they seek to improve completion rates
and efficiency in higher education.
Source: 2010-2011 National Governors Association Chair’s Initiative
Governmental Solution:National
“…dramatically increasing the nation’s college completion rate through state policy change.”
Key Policy Areas• Performance funding• Time-to-degree• Remediation• Restructure
Source: www.completecollege.org
CompletionInnovationChallenge
$10 million to 10 states
Governmental Solution:National
Regional Career Pathways – Arkansas, Montana, Virginia, Washington, Oregon
Transfer Articulation Agreements – Tennessee, Florida, California, Arizona
Outreach to “Near Completers” – Kentucky
Integration of State Data Systems – North Carolina, Florida, Washington Sources: Jones, Dennis. National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. - for NGA – “Framing a College Attainment Agenda”.
“College Productivity – Four Steps to Finishing First”. Lumina Foundation
Performance Based Funding – Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Washington
Governmental Solution:State Policies
Reduce Time-to-Degree – Connecticut, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee
Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
Governmental Solution:State Funding
Institutional Solution:Lone Star College
Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) focused on enhancing the learning environment and success rates of first-time-in-college (FTIC) students.
© 2010 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 2525
Appendix 3: PS Geography Served/Grant Investment Profile
Total PS Grant Awards 2008-2011: $134.9M# of
States$$ in
States
< $1M 26 $5.9
$1 – 5M 16 $30.6
$5 - 10M 3 $17.4
> $10M 5 $81.0
Complete College America Alliance of States
Completion by Design Colleges (tentative)
AtD Developmental Education Initiative Colleges
CLIP/Partners for Postsecondary Success (PPS)Sites
Adult Basic Education/GED to Credential States (tentative)
AtD Developmental Education Initiative States
Postsecondary Success States of Interest
College-Ready Focus State
Hawaii
Alaska
Of 1,128 total community colleges, PS has direct investments in 182 (16%) across 33 states. These institutions enroll more than 2M students (27%), 472,000 of whom are low-income.1 PS targets its investments in the community colleges with high numbers of low-income students, with a particular focus on 9 states of interest that have the largest numbers of both low-income young adults and community colleges, and a supportive policy environment. To date, we have reached 95 of our key target institutions in our 9 focus states, enrolling 338,854 low-income students.
Data from IPEDS 2008-09. Enrollment figure is total enrollment (not FTE). Pell recipients used as proxy for low-income students; not all Pell-eligible students apply for aid. 2007-2008 analysis of national NPSAS data (Kantrowitz) estimated 28% of PELL-eligible students did not apply for aid. Map does include 128 community colleges in whom we have indirect investments – those that receive services and/or capacity building through a BMGF-funded higher education network, district or system (e.g., Achieving the Dream). These 128 CCs enroll an additional 1.5M students, approximately 375,000 of whom are low-income.
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The Big Goal: To increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees and credentials to 60 percent by the year 2025.
Source: Lumina Foundation for Education. www.luminafoundation.org
Achieving the Dream - $67+ million
$5.4million – 2011-Q2 grants
$15.4million – 2011-Q1 grants
$14.8million – Adult degree attainment projects
Achieve, Inc. - $1.2million
$43.4million – 2010 grants
Philanthropic Solution:Lumina Foundation
in Texas20
Completion Initiatives!
Philanthropic Solution
COMPLETION BY DESIGN
Philanthropic Solution:Gates Foundation
All Students in FTIC Cohort
Liberal Arts and Sciences Concen-
trators
CTE Concentrators Non-Concentra-tors
Non-Attempters0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Five-Year Highest Outcomes: Concentrators Compared with Non-Concentrators and Non-Attempters
Still enrolled at college in Year 5 with 30+ college credits
Bachelor's (other inst.)
Transferred to 4-Year institution with no award
Certificate or associate (other inst.)
Transferred to 4-Year institution with an award
Bachelor's degree (starting inst.)
Associate degree
Certificate ≥ 1 yr.
Certificate < 1 yr.
Pathway Analysis: A New Way of Looking at Data
State System Capacity: Characteristics of the state policy environment that enable diffusion of the pathway • State-level champions: Policymakers, higher
education, business and community leaders committed to completion
• Expertise in Completion-Practices: Community College leaders and policymakers knowledgeable about practices to support completion
• State policy aligns to completion: State policies incentivizes adoption of completion pathway design principles
Completion Pathway: The integrated set of policies, practices, programs and processes intentionally designed to maximize student completion across the loss-momentum framework.
Design Principles1. Anchored in clearly-defined learning
competencies (to allow for quality, flexibility, and acceleration )
2. Prioritizes accelerating academic catch-up
3. Differentiates/customizes instruction and support to optimize each student’s credential attainment
4. Leverages technology to significantly improve learning, student services, and manage costs
5. Promotes enrollment in structured and coherent programs of study
6. Provides timely data to inform decision making (for students, faculty and administrators)
7. Integrates seamlessly with K-12, transfer partners and employers
High-Performing College Capacity: The capacities/skills essential to designing and maintaining the completion pathway
• Learning-focused leadership: Leadership at all levels (trustees, administrators, faculty, student services) makes student learning and completion top priority
• Data Analysis Capacity: Expertise in sophisticated analysis of student outcome and financial data to inform practice improvement and resource allocation
• Technology Capacity---uses technology to increase efficiency of service delivery and support sophisticated data analysis
• Culture of Improvement and Innovation: Staff at all levels (trustees, administration, faculty, student services) engaged in continuous innovation to improve experience for most students
State System
High Performing
College
Completion Pathway
Building Capacities
THE WAY FORWARD
The Way Forward
Source: Across the Great Divide, March 2011
• Credentials Count - instill employer-valued degrees
• Business and Community College partnerships Create “Earn & Learn” collaborations
• Guarantee transfer agreements
• Create incentives for completion - not just enrollment
• Measure success (and failure)
• Interventions
Student by Student
• Adoption
Institution by Institution
• Policy
State by State
COMPLETION…
The Way Forward:Scale
Thank You
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